Hi guys, I need some advice, since Easter is coming up now, I wanted to give back to the community in my area to the kids whose parents can't afford to buy them Easter eggs. Does anyone know where I can buy a lot of Easter eggs in bulk for a very good price? My budget is a R1 000 and I at least want to give it to 60+ kids.

Having done this before, permit me to give some advice. I hope this is nottaken the wrong way, it is merely a recount of my experience.

We used to do feeding schemes all over the western cape, and focused on thepoorest of the poor, farm workers' children, whose parents were(are) stillpaid with the dop-system.

We arranged shoebox collections for xmas, feeding weekends where we madebig pots of spaghetti mince, stews, hot-dogs etc and spent lots of timewith the kids trying to make a difference. the list goes on and on.

All we got in return was " I dont like mince" and anything that was not ahalf decent plastic toy was simply thrown on the floor and discarded asuseless (Who needs hand knitted gloves and socks in winter anyway) Fightsbroke out if one kid got better toys than the other, the parents sat oneside nursing a babellas.

Now im not blaming anyone here, but in general I felt defeated, and had totake a long hard look at why things went awry.

Lessons learned:

The is a huge difference between a hand OUT and a hand UP. Always thinkof your strategy and how their lives would be different if you walked away.In my case , Addressing the problem at root level may have yielded betterresults. I strongly feel that food schemes and the like are alot likegiving money to robot beggers. you are simply making the problem worse byenabling them.Many times people in a bad situation simply wait for the next do gooder tobring them something to pawn for their REAL needs/wants.Some would say that chocolate eggs doesnt constitute a feeding scheme.Simply see it as just doing something nice for someone and you'll be fine.

Man I hope im not coming off as being negative here. If you really want todo good, good on you! Just make sure you are making the right difference.Even chat to Gift of the Givers or similar organisation and see what can bedone via one of them perhaps.

So true ,Couple of friends and i tried the same thing with the shoe box ,only to find out that the goods collected was never given to the intended people.We have learnt from that and now distribute anything we receive ourselves.Its a shame to think that some people are still ungrateful in this day and age.